The following Applied Mathematics students who were awarded scholarships for 2014-2015 were honoured at the Annual Faculty of Mathematics Banquet:
Applied Mathematics Master's student, Tawsif Khan, won the Faculty of Mathematics 3-minute thesis heat held on March 3, 2015, with his talk titled "Optimal Sensor Location".
Researchers from Applied Math, along with colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, have found a new approach for attacking drug resistant cancer cells.
The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) team recently won Gold Standing and Best Model at the 2014 iGEM Giant Jamboree.
Eduardo Martin-Martinez, a research assistant professor in Applied Mathematics and the Institute for Quantum Computing, has won the Polanyi Prize for physics for his research on gravity and quantum theory. Polyani prizes are awarded annually to five early career researchers in Ontario in the areas of chemistry, economic science, literature, physics and physiology/medicine.
Thirteen graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the Fall 2014 convocation:
Martin Wainwright, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who obtained a BMath in Applied Mathematics from Waterloo, has won the 2014 COPSS Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
Several members of the Applied Math department will be featured on a website celebrating Ontario women mathematicians.
Congratulations to the following Applied Mathematics graduate student scholarship holders for Fall 2014:
The Applied Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the creation of a new undergraduate scholarship due to the generosity of one our alumni.